CLAUDE "BUTCH" MORGAN
Winner 
Wildflower Songwriting contest
&
The People's Choice Award

Claude "Butch" Morgan has been a regular on the San Antonio music scene since the 70s, breaking ground by merging Country, Rock, Folk and all the other influences in his life into original songs filled with insightful lyrics and catchy melodies. Other artists cover his material and his songs have virtually become anthems. 
He has also refined the craft  of 'putting on the show', a consummate ringmaster making sure a good time is had by all. Crowds of loyal fans all over Texas sing along with his originals and marvel at the energy and the innovative new twists he brings to the standards.

JEAN SYNODINOS
Joined by the fabulous Charles Riser on guitar and Michael Hynes on bass!

Jean Synodinos (that's sin-uh-DEE-nus) delivers smart-sexy acoustic-pop for the big kids in the room. Her voice has been hailed by critics as “big league,” and her award-winning writing (including Kerrville's New Folk competition) digs deep lyrically, moving from big affirmations to little ironies at the turn of a phrase. Deftly skating between genres, Jean jumps from pop to jazz to rock to blues in order to find the right groove and tone for each song. Known for her dynamic performances, she lives to “read the room” and deliver shows that keep audiences returning for more.

There's no mistaking that marvelous voice, but if that alone gives her a decided advantage in the massed ranks of Austin's Girls With Guitars, she piles it on by writing songs that are extraordinarily inventive and distinctive...  she writes poetry that can be sung." John Conquest, Third Coast Music

SHOWCASE SUNDAY
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 
1:30-5:00  /  12 performers
Doors open at  Noon
Performers check in by: 1pm

Advance sign up required for performers.

On selected Sundays of each month,  Lane Gosnay, owner of The Bugle Boy hosts an afternoon PERFORMANCE SHOWCASE  as a forum for aspiring performing songwriters.

Consisting of both state and national acts, performers have ten minutes each to make The Bugle Boy stage their own.  Each act performs two original songs, and a panel of 3 judges chooses three finalists. These three are invited back to the stage at the end of the afternoon to perform one more song, and the judges select one winner. Performers are judged in six different areas: songwriting, vocal performance, playing ability, stage presence, entertainment skills and audience response.
 

SMYTHE & TAYLOR

SHELLEY KING
 

Shelley King has the unique honor of being the first woman to be appointed Official Texas State Musician. A singer, songwriter, and seasoned bandleader based in Austin, Texas, Shelley King won the prestigious Austin Music Awards for "Roots Rock Band of the Year" in 2005 and "Song of the Year" in 2001 for her song "Call of My Heart". Shelley King has been described as "powerhouse", "soothing alto", "un-crying in your beer", and "blistering" all in the same review leading critics and fans to agree that it is her big voice and strong delivery that sets her head and shoulders above virtually every other vocalist, male or female, in the state. Numerous artists nationally and internationally have covered King's songs including Toni Price who featured King's compositions on the PBS series Austin City Limits and Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood who covered King's "Texas Blue Moon" on their Warner International release in 2004.

Sunday Afternoon with
WAYLON PAYNE
 

DALE WATSON

"I'm one of Dale's biggest fans - I enjoy all his records and think he's great. I think there's a great deal of similarity between Dale and Waylon and myself...Kris and all the guys who just want to play their music and not have to go through all the bullshit. Dale stays true to what he believes in...whatever they say made me and Waylon 'Outlaws,' I think he's the same...if WE were, HE is."             ..Willie Nelson

SETH WALKER

Seth Walker’s music combines the driving delivery and infectious guitar style of B.B. King and T-Bone Walker with a gift for songwriting that stamps his music with a sound all his own. Walker himself describes his music as “a different point of blue.” Moreover, the gifted singer, songwriter and blues guitarist has been on a roll over the past several months. He’s toured with blues luminaries Charlie Musselwhite and Marcia Ball, shared a Christmas tour with Americana faves Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis, seen his music added to the blues channel on satellite radio and signed with the prestigious Piedmont Talent agency (which also represents James Cotton, Johnny Winter and Sue Foley). It’s hard to sing the blues with a track record like that! The Austin-based Walker released his fifth, self-titled album a year ago, and the ensuing months have been marked by one opportunity after another.

THE HUDSONS
Awarded: Austin’s Best Folk Band 2007

The Hudsons' catalogue is populated by a diverse bunch of songs. With their acoustic orientation, they've found a comfy home in the folk community, but the group shies away from no genre. They're the proud purveyors of folk-rap, rhyming stories of pimps losing wallets and planets ambling into a raucous party in the middle of the sun. Other songs ring of their singer-songwriting heroes Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Warren Zevon, Elliott Smith, Randy Newman, and Willie Nelson. They've defined themselves by playing the songs they write, however they happen to sound.

The Hudsons are frequently joined by their good friends: Leah Zeger on violin, Aeron Starr on harmonica, and Shawn Tuthill on trumpet, whistling, and djembe.

CAJI & SALOME'
Brazilian Acoustic Music

Caji, a distinctive guitarist in the Brazilian style and unique singing interpretation redefines the grooves from his hometown, Salvador, Bahia. He released is first solo work (Caji da Bahia) in 2004 with Indie record company AmazRecords, with the participation of an exceptional team of fine jazz musicians.

Salomé, from the islands of Azores, joined him as a multilingual vocalist; her percussions grooves; ukulele and her passion for Brazilian and world music.  Together they extended the musical language to a mutli-cultural expression. They represent and explore a vast universe of musical styles that are interconnected. While the main influence is Afro-Brazilian, which includes bossa-nova, samba, and afoxé, they incorporate reggae and other world music styles such as bolero, morna, and fado into their unique sound.

With her percussiveness and ability to sing in four different languages (Portuguese, Spanish, French, and English), and his sensitivity to musical language, and rythms, they are able to bring to the music of the world, including Brazilian, Cuban, French, Peruvian, Cabo Verdan and Portuguese, a special sensitivity to the rare beauty of these cultures, bringing together the people of the earth.

GREG GARING

In an age of boy bands, corporate sponsored rebellion, and fake reality shows, it's nice to see an original pop up seemingly out of the blue. Insiders know about Garing and his haunted, southern-gothic voice and songs, and it's time the rest of the world did too. He straddles the line where indie rock, alt.country and blues meet, and that's a place where he belongs with the Nick Caves, Jeff Buckleys, Ryan Adams, and Jeff Tweedys of the world.

Few people approach their music with as much intensity and imagination as Greg Garing. He is rooted in bluegrass and honky-tonk, but his musical appetites are too omnivorous to be contained by any one genre.

Greg Garing began his career at the early age of 11, playing solo Boogie
Woogie in a VFW Post. This beginning led Greg as a young man on a
relentless journey throughout America, exploring and experiencing every
possible trail of the roots of American music. Greg's talent and ability
to blend the music from traditional roots of this country has afforded him
accolades including the cover of Billboard, The New York Times and
countless other major publications. In addition Greg Garing's story has
been documented in various forms including a documentary by Crossroads
Films and a photography book, Nashville's Lower Broad by Bill Rouda,
published by The Smithsonian Institute. Greg's ability to master musical
instruments and styles has placed him with high acclaim in countless
fields of music- Blues, Country, Jass, Bluegrass and Rock & Roll.
Greg's original material has often been referred to as the essence of
timeless classics and is frequently performed by young folk artists around
the world. Most notably, what brings Greg acclaim are his vocals,
celebrated for their resounding unearthly sound. These accomplishments
have made Greg Garing a hero in the underground roots music world.
 

SUSAN GIBSON

SHOWCASE SUNDAY
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 
1:30-5:00  /  12 performers
Doors open at  Noon
Performers check in by: 1pm

Advance sign up required for performers.

On selected Sundays of each month,  Lane Gosnay, owner of The Bugle Boy hosts an afternoon PERFORMANCE SHOWCASE  as a forum for aspiring performing songwriters.

Consisting of both state and national acts, performers have ten minutes each to make The Bugle Boy stage their own.  Each act performs two original songs, and a panel of 3 judges chooses three finalists. These three are invited back to the stage at the end of the afternoon to perform one more song, and the judges select one winner. Performers are judged in six different areas: songwriting, vocal performance, playing ability, stage presence, entertainment skills and audience response.
 

WILL TAYLOR
& STRINGS ATTACHED
PLAYS THE BEATLES RUBBER SOUL

Will Taylor & Strings Attached will perform the Beatles "Rubber Soul" album.  Tickets will go fast so get yours in advance.

Having presented the Beatles White Album, Sgt. Pepper, and Abbey Road to thousands in the Austin area, Will Taylor and Strings Attached debuts its reworking of "Rubber Soul" complete with guest singers David Newbould, master guitarist Glenn Rexach, Bass and Trumpet by Steve Zirkel, drums by Brian Austin, backup singers a full three piece string section and projection art by Charles Beard. 


Rubber Soul is the sixth studio album by the British rock band The Beatles . The album was first released in December 1965. Produced by George Martin , Rubber Soul was recorded in just over four weeks to make the Christmas market. It was a major artistic achievement for the band, attaining widespread critical and commercial success, with reviewers taking note of The Beatles' developing musical vision.
 

JENNY REYNOLDS

"Now I have three pairs of flip-flops, and my snow boots are dusty."
Jenny Reynolds also has a new CD titled, "Next To You".  Co-produced by Scrappy Jud Newcomb, Mark Addison and Reynolds, and features Ian McLagan, Ruthie Foster, and Warren Hood. Reynolds' music is an amalgam of Shawn Colvin, Kathleen Edwards, Beth Orton and Lucinda Williams. Next To You combines rockers and ballads, stories and rants, and precisely one hoot. Now based in Austin permanently, Reynolds tours nationally and returns to her native New England several times a year.

2003 Kerrville New Folk Finalist
1999 BOSTON MUSIC AWARD NOMINEE  
Featured on ABC, CBS and NBC television

"Jenny Reynolds is a wonderful new performer with great melodies that sometimes remind me of Karla Bonoff....[with] vocal inflections like Natalie Merchant,...Jenny is someone to watch."
-- Rounder Records artist Les Sampou

DENISE FRANKE

One of America's greatest forms of music is Folk. It's the one type of music where you can hear honest to God tales of life in this world. There aren't any sugar-coated love songs or catch hooks, there's just gritty, honest music with no hidden agenda and Denice Franke is true to the folk spirit. 

Franke recently made Galveston her home and thus the inspiration for her latest release, titled, "Gulf Coast Blues".  Franke has sung with such notables as Nanci Griffith, Lyle Lovett & Eric Taylor.

If Mary Chapin Carpenter and Joni Mitchell had a daughter, this is how she'd sound." --- Entertainment Weekly's - Alanna Nash

KIT HOLMES

For more than 25 years, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and award-winning songwriter Kit Holmes has performed on stages and in studios, composed, arranged, produced and engineered for solo artists, bands, festivals, small businesses, trade associations, churches and theater groups.

Her piano-driven music is a blend of jazz, pop and folk - likened to a funky cross between Joni Mitchell and Cole Porter. A Midwest native whose journey has taken her to Georgia, Texas and points beyond, Kit’s music reflects the joys and heartaches of a soul traveling a “road less taken.”
 

LUCKY TUBB
 A young legend in the making

Lucky Tubb evokes the look, sound, and legend of his great uncle Ernest Tubb.

LUCKY TUBB AND THE MODERN DAY TROUBADOURS  “If Ernest Tubb is the King of Honky Tonk music, then Lucky Tubb is surely the Prince” Choosing to carry out the legacy of his great-uncle, Lucky’s style is reminiscent to the raw and original country style of the earliest Nashville artists. Before music row forgot their heritage. Lucky Tubbs album “Generations” was recorded in January of 2003, after a devastating Christmas Eve house fire burned away all of his belongings. Through generous donations, he was able to re-establish equipment and love from the music community. He carried on. Never breaking stride and never retreating, Lucky has moved up the ranks of the Texas music scene. Lucky wears his life experiences like a well-tailored suit with the sleeves ripped off.  Bottom line, Lucky Tubb is the real deal. People will always like good honky-tonk music, and will for generations to come.